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Adrià Mitjavila Ventura
MSc | Bioinformatician at Institut Josep Carreras
Biotechnologist with training in Molecular Genetics and Bioinformatics. Interested in omics data analysis to study the mechanisms of gene regulation in mammals. See more about me on my website.
Experience
PhD student in Bioinformatics
Institut Josep Carreras & Institut Germans Trias i Pujol
Badalona, Spain
11/2022 - Present
Study of the role of transposable elements in the evolution of gene regulation in mammals.
Bioinformatician
Institut Josep Carreras
Badalona, Spain
08/2021 - 10/2022
Analysis of small RNA-seq data to study Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs), their biogenesis and the variation of piRNA-producing loci across species.
Bioinformatician
Istituto Europeo di Oncologia
Milan, Italy
07/2019 - 07/2021
Analysis and integration of RNA-, ChIP- and ATAC-seq data to study the Wnt/\(\beta\)catenin signaling pathway -and others- in the context of colorectal cancer and stem cell development.
Master’s thesis student & Research assistant
Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla
Seville, Spain
09/2017 - 10/2018
Analysis of MNase-seq and MNase-qPCR data to study the role Xrn1 and Ccr4 in yeast nucleosome architecture and gene transcription.
Internship & Bachelor’s thesis student
Microbial. Sistemes i aplicacions analítiques, S.L.
Girona, Spain
09/2016 - 06/2017
Microbiological and molecular analyses for pathogen detection and food forensics. | Study of butyrate effects on the ileal microbiota of colectomized colorectal cancer patients.
Education
MSc in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Online
2018 - 2022
Overall grade: 8.94/10 | Master’s thesis: Analysis of the variation in piRNA expression across three Mus species (thesis grade: 9.78/10, with honours).
MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Seville, Spain
2017 - 2018
Overall grade: 9.33/10 | Master’s thesis: Influence of Xrn1 in nucleosome positioning across Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome and its effects in transcription (thesis grade: 9.2/10).
BSc in Biotechnology
Universitat de Girona (UdG)
Girona, Spain
2012 - 2017
Overall grade: 8.12/10 | Bachelor’s thesis: Butyrate-induced changes in the diversity of intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota in colorectal cancer patients submitted to a lateral ileostomy (thesis grade: 9.4/10)
Publications
Begley et al. Xrn1 influence on gene transcription results from the combination of general effects on elongating RNA pol II and gene-specific chromatin configuration. RNA Biology 2020. doi: 10.1080/15476286.2020.1845504
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